US Patent Issued to Northwestern University, Georgia State University Research Foundation on Oct. 6 for "Orthogonal ubiquitin transfer as a method to identify cellular substrates of E3 ubiquitin ligases" (Georgia, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,402, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) and Georgia State University Research Foundation (Atlanta).

"Orthogonal ubiquitin transfer as a method to identify cellular substrates of E3 ubiquitin ligases" was invented by Jun Yin (Atlanta), Hiroaki Kiyokawa (Chicago), Yiyang Wang (Atlanta), Karan Bhuripanyo (Atlanta), Bo Zhao (Atlanta), Xianpeng Liu (Evanston, Ill.) and Li Zhou (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are compounds, compositions, and methods for identifying substrates of E3 ubiquitin ligases. The proteins, vectors, compositions, and may be utilized in methods for ortho...